Books & Literary Life
Developing Dads
Exploring the evolutionary biology of human fathers as caretakers
by Richard G. Bribiescas
Reporting, with an M.B.A.
Charles Duhigg unpacks how individuals and organizations work at war, on Wall Street, and in Silicon Valley
by Jonathan Shaw
The Poet of Old Age
Donald Hall, chronicler of life
by Adam Kirsch
Houghton Library Features Children’s Books in Opening Exhibit
“Animals Are Us” contextualizes Houghton’s new treasures.
by Jacob Sweet
“I Am Talking to the Part of You that Does Not Speak”
Artist Laurie Anderson delivers her fifth virtual Norton Lecture on Wednesday.
by Lily Scherlis
The Renovated Harvard Coop
Adapting to new conditions—but books are still a “core business”
by Kristina DeMichele
Life After Brain Injury
Alumna Carolyn Gold on finding a “new self” after West Nile encephalitis
by Lydialyle Gibson
Supreme Court Brinkmanship
Linda Greenhouse on the 2020-2021 Supreme Court—and the changes to come
How Myth and Memoir Intertwine
Elisabeth Sharp McKetta ’01 finds truth in the border between fact and fiction.
by Juliet Isselbacher
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Getting Close to the Past
A powerful public history of slavery in America
by Drew Gilpin Faust